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Word Meanings - PLURALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form. 2. To multiply; to make manifold.

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  • MANIFOLD
    1. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps. civ. 24. I know your manifold transgressions. Amos v. 12. 2. Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify
  • USHERDOM
    The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
  • USTULATE
    Blackened as if burned.
  • USURY
    1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii.
  • USURPANT
    Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
  • USQUEBAUGH
    of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi`os life. See 1. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott. 2. A liquor
  • USURIOUS
    1. Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. 2. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. -- U*su"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- U*su"ri*ous*ness, n.
  • USURER
    1. One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Ex. xxii. 25. 2. One who lends money at
  • PLURAL
    Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word. Plural faith, which is too much by one. Shak. Plural number , the number which designates more than one. See Number, n., 8.
  • USUFRUCTUARY
    A person who has the use of property and reaps the profits of it. Wharton.
  • USURPATURE
    Usurpation. "Beneath man's usurpature." R. Browning.
  • PLURALIST
    A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice. Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were pluralists. Macaulay.
  • TERMINATIONAL
    Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
  • USUCAPTION
    The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law. (more info) use; usu + capere to take: cf. usucapio
  • USURPATORY
    Marked by usurpation; usurping.
  • EXPRESSURE
    The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.
  • USUFRUCT
    The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance. Burrill.
  • TERMINATION
    The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection. (more info) 1. The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. 2. That
  • EXPRESS TRAIN
    Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
  • EXPRESSIVE
    1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning
  • PROTOGYNOUS
    See PROTEROGYNOUS
  • ANGUINEOUS
    Snakelike.
  • MENISCUS
    A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
  • PROVENTRIULUS
    The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
  • BUSH
    The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
  • POLYPHYLLOUS
    Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
  • PALACIOUS
    Palatial. Graunt.
  • TROUSSEAU
    The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
  • MALACOSTOMOUS
    Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
  • PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
    Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
  • RIPARIOUS
    Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
  • STEATOPYGOUS
    Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
  • DESMOGNATHOUS
    Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
  • RUSHED
    Abounding or covered with rushes.
  • BARBAROUS
    slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
  • HORRISONOUS
    Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
  • ANTIBILLOUS
    Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
  • BICUSPID
    One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
  • CARNIVOROUS
    Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.

 

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